3 Important Questions to Ask Google Analytics

With dozens of free web analytics tools available in the market, Google Analytics stands out because it provides data like no other tool does. Just add a few lines of JavaScript code to your website’s footer and you have access to a vast amount of metrics you can slice and dice. This data is useful [...]


Google Now Helps You Improve Your Site Performance

A new addition in Webmaster Tools this week sees Google becoming your own personal usability and accessibility consultant. Site Performance,  an experimental feature added to the Webmaster Tools console courtesy of Google Labs, provides detailed information about your site’s load time and gives suggestions for speeding it up. It includes a chart of your site [...]


How To Keep Your Website Visitors Coming Back For More

Driving great quality traffic to your website can be a pretty tough task, but getting those visitors to come back is even tougher. The worse thing you can do is let your visitors come and go without attempting to intervene. What are the odds of them returning? Not very good at all. That’s where opt-in [...]


Content Management Systems & SEO Revisited

Two years ago, I wrote an article entitled “Content Management Systems Equal Business Suicide.” The basic premise was that at that time, CMS applications were inherently devoid of basic SEO functionality. Building a new site, or converting an existing site to the existing CMS versions of 2 years ago was rapid way of consigning those [...]


Google unleashes its new Webmaster Help Group

Since its launch in June 2005, Google’s Webmaster Help Group [GWHG] has helped tens of thousands of frustrated webmasters to overcome a vast array of problems, penalties and other assorted issues between their websites and Google. Now, some three and a half years later, on Thursday December 4th 2008 at 8.15AM PST, Google’s main front-line [...]